Technology Toolkit

There has been a rapidly rising demand for web hosting services and many of the part-time basis-basement operations have found it virtually impossible to meet the new quality and service demands of web sites. Many who had previously gotten away with careless services and a technical service department that was just an answering machine where all callers including clients with situations left their messages.

You may be unfortunate enough to still be using a hosting service like this one. Our advice is that it is too costly in today’s net environment. It’s easy to find hosting on the internet but there are a number of variables to consider when choosing your website’s host:

1. Where is this host located? Local or International?
2. Where are the data-centers located?
3. Do their servers provide the bandwidth and technical needs your website requires?
4. How much email disk space do they allow? What is the maximum attachment size?
5. How long has this company been around?
6. Does the host provide phone support or just email support?
7. Is their price reasonable compared to other hosts that offer the same services?
8. Will they provide more advanced hosting for busier websites?
9. Has the company been sold / acquired recently?
10. Does the company offer 24/7 support?
11. Is support outsourced?

The 3 most common complaints that you should consider knowing against web site hosts are pretty usual these days.

Poor Technical Support

This complaint is by far the one that is mostly heard. Many hosting companies outsource their technical support and the result is often total chaos. Clients get answering machines or voice mail systems when they call. Sometimes you can even get non-English speaking technicians.
Other times trouble tickets go unanswered for days without resolution.

Reliability

Reliability is another major complaint with sites being down to many times or being too slow at certain times. All this impacts negatively on the performance and revenue potential of the site.

Delays after signing up

When people sign up for web sites, they are often concerned to go ahead as quickly as possible. Nobody wants delays. But with many web hosts, after signing up it takes days for the account to be ready. And also be able to accept as many payments as possible to give them a chance to pay accordingly to how they are comfortable to pay.

Given these ideas, we hope that it will help you decide in considering a reliable web host for the success of your business.

Web hosting in the Philippines is a lucrative yet competitive internet business. We can never hide the fact that the internet is full of web hosting scammers posing as a legitimate company and I have been a victim of one. When I started to put up my very first web hosting, I was scammed with my money and never heard from the owner ever again. But I was still determined to put up my website and find a web hosting, to my delight, I found a non-scammer seller of web hosting, but it was fairly new. The problems I had with my 2nd hosting was that, it wasn’t reliable.

Reliability is one. A web hosting company or server is reliable when there are 0% down time. Which means, your site won’t go offline. What I experienced is that, the web hosting is not that reliable and my clients who started to visit the site thought of me as unprofessional.

And so I went from one web hosting to another. Because of this, I gained a lot of experience about different web hosting company’s strong and weak points. I decided to put up this blog so that people from the Philippines and all over the world may know first hand how a specific web hosting company does its business, their strong points, their weak points and how to deal with them.

Let’s answer some questions first, what is web hosting? A web hosting company, either in the Philippines or anywhere in the world, is a company that will let you host your web files for all the rest of the world to see your site. More like an office space on the internet. It is different from a domain name, in which by our analogy, would be the name of the office. You have to buy the domain and hosting separately but there are some web hosting companies that offer both at an affordable price or either one of them is free.

Why do you need a web hosting? Businesses needs web hosting mainly because to gain exposure. Because of the nature of the internet, anything that can be published on the web, can be seen by everybody across the globe. So, businesses that caters to a large international audience may benefit from it. Also, those businesses that wants to push their business to the next level may want to put up a site so they can reach a larger customer base.

Also, people buy web hosting for personal use. There are house wives and moms that wants to share their experiences and write it in their website. There are people who uses web hosting to earn money online as well.

So what should we look for when signing up for a web hosting? First of all, look for reliability, customer reviews, excellent customer support and lastly the price. I will pay a large amount of money for a web hosting that would not go down on me and leave my site behind. We will write more articles about that in the following days, as for now please bare with us.

Having a knowledge about web hosting will become handy for a business owner, so that, if you’re on the edge of signing up, you know that you can sleep at night and have a peace of mind, knowing that you’re not being scammed nor your site going down while you were asleep.